Tariq Dag Khan

Bio

Based in London, Tariq joined Turnstone Capital as an Operating Partner in 2009. Tariq’s experience combines fifteen years of hands-on operating experience – launching, building and funding “nascent-market” start-ups arising out of macro events and/or technology shifts - with more than five years of re-engineering and strategy management consulting and investment banking M&A and corporate finance experience. Tariq currently leads Turnstone’s investment efforts in the UK and continental Europe, sourcing potential high-growth venture and private equity opportunities primarily in renewable technology and telecom & media technology, and working with select European capital networks, including family offices, venture and strategic investors, to capitalize these opportunities. Since leaving investment banking and management consulting, Tariq’s career has been about taking new ideas, concepts, businesses to market and in many cases entering, creating or reinventing new marketplaces. His role at these start-ups has been to help recruit talent and build teams, define the market-entry, customer acquisition, product development and/or funding strategy and to then see strategy -through-to-execution. Prior to joining Turnstone Capital, he held senior management roles at several nascent-market start-ups including: Marquis Jet Europe, the first pan-European private jet card business (sold to NetJets Europe), StepStone, the first pan-European online recruitment business (public offering) and Firefly Network, the first online music community (sold to Microsoft). Tariq has also been involved on a “jump-start” basis as interim CMO for two other start-ups formed to benefit from recent macro events and technology shifts, one being Nimbuzz, a comprehensive mobile VoIP solution worldwide, and most recently Borro.com, the first online pawn lender, which was formed in the wake of the banking and credit crisis. Tariq graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Political & Social Thought, a selective inter-disciplinary Honors program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He earned his MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College in 1995.